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Penk, Christiane; Pöhlmann, Claudia; Roppelt, Alexander – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2014
Background: Low-stakes assessments do not have consequences for the test-takers. Currently, motivational research indicates that a lack of test-taking motivation can decrease students' performance in low-stakes assessments. However, little research has explored the domain-specific and situation-specific aspects of motivation simultaneously.…
Descriptors: Role, Student Motivation, Cross Cultural Studies, Multiple Regression Analysis
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Tse, Shek Kam; Xiao, Xiao-yun – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2014
Background: This study examined the impact of the reading-related affective factors "home environment" and school "environment" on predicting the likelihood of students being either high-proficiency or low-proficiency readers. Data from 3,875 Hong Kong SAR Grade 4 students participating in an international comparative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Reading Skills